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Welcome to Winklers Crossroads ...

Winklers Crossroads is located in Macon County<1>.

A typical abbreviation for Winklers Crossroads: Winklers Xrds.

See our Genealogy Helper Page for Winklers Crossroads for more information about variations on the name of Winklers Crossroads.

Winklers Crossroads is 930 feet [283 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Winklers Crossroads lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Note: If you leave Winklers Crossroads and travel east, you will leave Central Time and cross into the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT).

Area Codes for Winklers Crossroads: 615 & 629<3>

Communities near Winklers Crossroads ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Winklers Crossroads.

  • Columbus Hill
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Columbus Hill is located in Jackson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbus Hill
    • Estimated population in 2014: 36,071 people
  • Difficult
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Difficult is located in Smith County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Difficult
    • Estimated population in 2014: 14,993 people
  • Lafayette
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Tompkinsville
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Celina
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
  • Red Boiling Springs
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Gainesboro
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Gamaliel
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Fountain Run
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Akersville
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Akersville is located in Monroe County (KY)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Akersville

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Winklers Crossroads. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Winklers Crossroads.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Winklers Crossroads. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Winklers Crossroads.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Winklers Crossroads. See our Newspapers Page for Winklers Crossroads.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Winklers Crossroads ...

Looking for more information about Winklers Crossroads? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Winklers Crossroads, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Winklers Crossroads.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Tennessee's counties, including Macon, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Winklers Crossroads - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 615 code has been Overlayed with the 629 area code. New phone numbers in the Winklers Crossroads area will be assigned with one of these codes: 615 or 629. As a result, placing a call in the Winklers Crossroads area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.